Google History And Its Creators

Google History and its creators

Larry Page and Sergey Brin began Google as a university project in January 1996 when both were postgraduate students in computer science at Stanford University. The original name of the search engine was Backrub, in 1997 the founders decide Web information. Page and Brin Fundan, on September 4, 1998, the Google Inc company., that opens its search engine online the following September 27 (considered the anniversary date). They had a closet full of servers (about 80 processors), and two HP routers.5 This search engine surpassed the other more popular of the time, speaker, which had been created in 1995. In 2000 Google presented Adwords, its online advertising system and the so -called Google bar.

In February 2001, Google buys the Usenet Debatenet service leaves news and transforms it into Google Groups. In March of the same year Eric Schmidt is appointed president of the Board of Directors. In July 2001 he launched his image search service. In February 2002, Lanza Google Search Appliance. In May launches Google Labs that will close 9 years later. Google News is launched in September. In December of the same year, the product search service called Froogle is launched, now called Google Products. In February 2003 Google acquired Pyra Labs and with it the blogger blog creation service. In April Google Grants presents a free advertising service for non -profit organizations. In December of that year Google Print is launched, later Google Books.

In January 2004, he launches the Orkut Social Network. In March, Google Local is launched that would later be integrated with Google Maps. In April Google presented Gmail, his email service with 1 GB of storage.August 19 Google Inc. It would go to the stock exchange under the Nasdaq: Goog symbol, with an initial offer of 25.7 million shares, and with a price range of 85 to 95 dollars. In October of that year they launch Google Desktop, which will be discontinued. He also launched the so -called academic Google. On August 18 of that same year Google went over at wallstreet. In 2004 he bought the Keyhole company.

A year later, in 2005, Google Maps and Google Earth brought to light. That same year Google bought Android Inc. Vint Cerf, considered one of the parents on the Internet, was hired by Google in 2005. Google Code also launched and the first summer of code develops. In August it presents Google Talk. In October Google launches its feeds reader RSS Google Reader. In November Google Analytics is presented and in December Google Transit.

In 2006, Lanza Picasa. In March Writely acquired to launch Google Docs and presents that same month Google Finance. In April Google Calendar is presented and in August Google Apps, Company Oriented Service. In October 2006, Google acquired for 1650 million the YouTube videos page. That same month Jotspot acquires that he will later become Google Sites.

A year later, in 2007, Google launched the open operating system for Android mobiles and created the Open Handset Alliance. In April 2007, Google bought Doublecick, a company specialized in Internet advertising, for 3100 million dollars. This same month, Google became the most valuable brand in the world, reaching the sum of 66 billion dollars, surpassing emblematic companies such as Microsoft, General Electric and Coca-Cola. In June he launches Google Gears that will later be abandoned because what he offered later was incorporated into HTML. In July 2007, Google bought Panoramium, a website dedicated to exhibiting the photographs that the users themselves create and geoposition, being some of them uploaded to the site so that they can be seen through the Google Earth software, whose objective is to allow the Users of the aforementioned software